The Age of Wit, 1650-1750Macmillan, 1966 - 348 strani |
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... women and men . Women as Wits Women were not usually accorded the capacity for genuine wit ; furthermore , they were not considered to have a serious role in the Republic of Wit . Therefore , women who aspired to the role of a wit ...
... women and men . Women as Wits Women were not usually accorded the capacity for genuine wit ; furthermore , they were not considered to have a serious role in the Republic of Wit . Therefore , women who aspired to the role of a wit ...
Stran 237
... Women were governed too much by imagination or fancy , but wit was not ruled out entirely . They did have moments of clear reasoning . Grudgingly as women might be admitted to possess real wit , some witty women enjoyed equal status ...
... Women were governed too much by imagination or fancy , but wit was not ruled out entirely . They did have moments of clear reasoning . Grudgingly as women might be admitted to possess real wit , some witty women enjoyed equal status ...
Stran 258
... women themselves become the pursuers . Even the country wife catches " the London disease they call love " : I am ... women , women , that make men do all foolish things , make ' em write songs too . Everybody does it . ' Tis even as ...
... women themselves become the pursuers . Even the country wife catches " the London disease they call love " : I am ... women , women , that make men do all foolish things , make ' em write songs too . Everybody does it . ' Tis even as ...
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PREFACE | 11 |
THE ENIGMA OF WIT | 17 |
THE RHETORIC OF WIT | 36 |
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Abraham Cowley Addison Age of Wit Alexander Pope ancients Augustan Reprint Society Beauty Bishop Sprat Blackmore called chap comedy concept context conversation Country Wife Cowley decorum Dennis Discourse Dryden dull Dunciad Earl English epigram Essay on Criticism expression extravagant faculty faculty psychology false wit fancy figures Flecknoe fool genius Gulliver Hobbes HORNER Houyhnhnms humor imagination intellectual irreligion John John Dryden Jonathan Swift kind of wit LADY FIDGET laugh learning letter literary little wits London Longinus manner meaning ment metaphor metaphysical metaphysical poets mind moral nature neoclassical ornamentation play poem poet poetic Poetry Pope popular Preface to Valentinian pretenders propriety psychology raillery reason Republic of Wit rhetorical ridicule rules satire secret grace sect sense seventeenth century Shadwell Shaftesbury Spectator Spingarn spirit style sublime Swift Tatler things Thomas Hobbes thought tion true wit truth turn vice wit's witty Wolseley words writing wrote